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AI use statement

Plain-English draft, not legal advice. We wrote this ourselves to say clearly what we do. It wasn't written by a lawyer, and it should be reviewed by one before anyone relies on it. Last updated 4 October 2026.

People care about this, and they should. So here's exactly where AI is and isn't used.

The dispatcher's voice is a computer voice

The dispatcher who talks to your crew over the radio in CLOSED CASKET (and in the trailer) is an open-source computer voice: Kokoro-82M, an open-source neural text-to-speech model released under the Apache 2.0 licence. We wrote every line ourselves, rendered them offline, and ran them through a radio effect (band-pass, a little distortion, squelch and static). It isn't a recording of a person and isn't meant to sound like any real person.

Only the finished audio files ship with the game. Nothing is generated live and nothing you say is ever processed.
You can turn it off: Settings › Audio › Dispatcher voice = 0. The radio text and subtitles stay.
We may replace it with a human recording later. If we do, we'll say so here and in the changelog.

Everything else is handmade or made by code

Art: drawn by our own code at runtime: wobbly lines, paper, tape, rain, neon. No AI images.
Video: the trailer is real gameplay captured from the game, cut by hand. No AI video.
Music and sound effects: synthesized live in your browser by our own code (WebAudio). No AI music, no AI sound effects, no sample packs.
Writing: the script, jokes and in-game text are original to the game, as is everything written on this website.
This website's pictures: real screenshots and frames from the game, plus a few plain shapes in CSS.
Crew radio voices are other players talking live. They're never recorded, stored or fed to any AI.

Tools behind the scenes

To be fully open: parts of the game's code (including the code that draws the art and makes the sounds), parts of the in-game text, and parts of this website's code and text were written with help from an AI coding assistant, with people deciding what goes in. That's a tool behind the scenes rather than something you see or hear in the game, but we'd rather tell you than have you find out.

If we ever list a game on a store that asks about AI, this is the statement we'll give them.